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On the Fear of Death

It is not just the reality that we will one day die that should inform our pastoral presence, but also the fact that even now we live only by the grace of God. The grace of God in Christ is not only true, but it turns out that it is all that we have.

Post-Christmas Terror

In this space between Christmastide and the Baptism of our Lord, it is good to recall that God became man, and not for a moment, playing with human likeness and then giving it up for better things. This is a God who goes to the place of wielded swords and worse. And the child hums in the stable, "become like me."

On Natality

This week Covenant will host a series of essays that address a cluster of realities: a drastically falling global birthrate; the reduction in the...

Life Has Its Own Mortal Loveliness

Marilynne Robinson’s Gilead, St. Paul, and the Transfiguration of Mortality Adapted from a presentation given March 6 at St. John the Divine Episcopal Church, Houston. I...

Death Cafés and the Resurrection of the Body

Among many effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on the world was an increasing sense of mortality. This was very evident in the circles of...

The Hour Glass of Time and Emptying Nests

My daughter is moving into college this month. Emotionally, I’m okay (so far), but my mind is really confused. I don’t know how so...

To Set Our Sights on the Cross

By Cole Hartin Lent is good time to think about death. It’s a good time to think about death because it’s the time when we...

Dust and Ashes

By Joseph Mangina "Remember that you are dust, and to dust you shall return.” So run the familiar words spoken during the imposition of ashes...

From the Ashes We Will Rise: The Power of Ash Wednesday

By James Richardson Ash Wednesday 2018 dawned like no other in my lifetime. A few short months earlier, fires had raged through Sonoma, Napa, and Lake...

Divine Irreplaceability

By Ephraim Radner One of the most difficult things I have done as a pastor is to stand beside people as they face a terrible...

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